[net.games.go] Answer to Life and Death #3 ?

lew@ihuxr.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.) (02/13/84)

Well, black has to defend against white at S3 with either T3 or T4.
However, T4 allows white to play T2 followed by T3 or S2. T3 seems
to work.

This is probably hopelessly naive, but I have no fear of appearing
foolish at Go, being quite used to it.

	Lew Mammel, Jr. ihnp4!ihuxr!lew

frankr@inmet.UUCP (02/18/84)

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inmet!frankr    Feb 16 18:18:00 1984

I think the critical life point is T2. Whoever gets there first wins the fight.

If black tries T3 white will play T2. I black tries S2 or T4 white replies with
T5. All the variations seem to work out to the same thing, black runs out of 
space. 

If black starts with T2 it seems as if white will reply with S3. But if that 
happens black goes to T4. White will run out of liberties first. Instead of
S3 white should admit that black lives and look for something horrible to do
somewhere else.

Franklin Reynolds
Intermetrics, Inc.
{ima, harpo, esquire}!inmet!frankr